Animated doll having axially rotated grasping limb action

Abstract

An animated doll includes a hollow body with a head having a face with a mouth opening and movable limbs mounted on the body. An internal pneumatic motor in the form of a bellows is mounted in the hollow body in fluid communication with the mouth opening and the motor is drivingly interconnected with the limbs of the doll including arms and legs pivotally mounted on the body. A fluid pump in the form of a nursing bottle is insertable into the doll's mouth and when systematically compressed and released, the inserted bottle actuates the pneumatic motor to pivot the arms and legs of the doll to a position wherein the limbs appear to hold the nursing bottle in a nursing position.

What is claimed as new and desired to be secured by Letters Patent of the United States is: 
     
       1. An animated doll which realistically simulates the movement of a baby, when given a bottle, to grasp the bottle comprising: a hollow body with a head with a mouth opening and movable limbs in the shape of arms and legs attached to the body said limbs in the shape of legs having ends in the shape of feet;   pneumatic motor means for moving said limbs between a first position spaced away from said fluid pump when in said feeding position and a second position wherein the outer end of each of said limbs is adjacent said pump appearing to hold said pump, each of said limbs extending outwardly of said body in said first position and being pivotal toward said second position, said motor means in said body in fluid communication with said mouth opening and drivingly connected to move said limbs;   a fluid pump generally in the shape of a baby's bottle having an outlet insertable into said mouth opening, said pump in a feeding position centered over said body near said mouth opening for operating said pneumatic motor means to move said limbs; and   means for rotating at least one of said limbs in the shape of legs around an axis extending along the length of said limb as said limb is moved by said motor means from said first to said second position.